Plunket is playgroup right? I learned that on my trip to NZ years ago, no one believed me that you called it plunket!
hmmm... not sure what you mean by playgroup (for us is play and coffee with other mums and bubs), but plunket is a free government run health service for babies from 6 weeks up to 5 years and their parents/caregivers - not so much health for the adults as advice on breastfeeding stuff. if you look at wikipedia under "royal new zealand plunket society" that has the whole story of plunket.

am on the committee for my area and have been running the advertising for our big event this year. plunket usually has a national annual appeal (around the beginning of march) but this year there was the deadly earthquake on feb 22 so we decided that we didn't want to take any attention away from the families in christchurch who (still) desperately need our help... so yeah. annual appeal brings in the majority of our income (to pay rent etc for the plunket rooms) so we have to work really really hard this year to make ends meet. and trying to write my seminar and essay for my honours degree too... bleh so exhausting!

but went for a nice long walk and the talk seemed to go well. yay!

sorry totally self involved today... :S